Is there any ready-to-go docbook editor for web applications out there? I'm thinking of something like FCKeditor or TinyMCE that returns a docbook xml code back to the web application. I am aware that FCKeditor is customizable to do this, but I have not heard of anyone who did this. ...
I am looking into structuring book (fiction) in docbook 5.0. I have got several introductory pages like about the book, about the author, about the publisher (with copyright, isbn info about the printer and the pagesetter), bastard title, title page. I am unsure, if it is better to structure all this in the info element or try to build ...
I have a Docbook XML document that has some images with special characters in their names (German umlauts). I'm using Saxon 6.5.5 and the Docbook xslt Stylesheets to create HTMLHelp files based on that document. Unfortunately the filenames are then url-encoded (% and hexadecimal code), which internet explorer can't deal with (with firefo...
Is there any way of defining macros (like tex macros o latex defines) in DocBook documents? DocBook is very verbose, and macros would help a lot. I didn't find them in quickstart tutorials. If so, could anyone provide a simple example or a link to? Thanks ...
I've written a docbook 5.0 document with the header: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <book version="5.0" xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:m="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/Ma...
Dear all, I would like to write a xslt rule if it matches a certain chapter ID that it sets autolabel to zero on the section. in pseudo code: IF CHAPTER == LOGBOOK SECTION.AUTOLABEL = 0 ELSE SECTION.AUTOLABEL = 1 ENDIF But after reading the docbook xsl website and docbook xsl reference i'm still unable to figure out how to d...
In my DocBook document I have several sections, which follow this pattern: the section name the short description the long description I'd like to create an index of these sections. But I need it to be a table, which is formatted the following way: | link_with_section_name | short_description | | <link id="section1_id">the section n...
I've used DocBook in the past and I love the idea behind the separation of content from presentation. I am very comfortable editing XML directly. In my extensive search to find the best documenting solution for my needs I am always coming back to this one solution: DocBook -> Build system (ant, make, etc.) -> Output I have seen lots of...
After a lot of spent time trying to get my article to compile in Ant with Docbook, I can't seem to make FO compilation work. I'm using Xalan 2.7.0, and everything else (both single-page and chunked HTML) compiles perfectly. It's only when I try to compile to FO that I get this error: Fatal Error! org.apache.xml.utils.WrappedRuntimeExce...
I've been charged with building a documentation system/platform. Here's a short list of the major requirements: Easily localized : This will need to support a dozen or so languages out of the gate. (the ability for non-technical personnel to add/update translations would be a big plus, though not 100% required) Flexibility in output ...
I'm putting together a few documents using DocBook. Almost all of them will refer to each other in some way, so I put together a bibliography section (using <bibliography). Is there some way, e.g. using <olink>, to automatically pull in the titles of the other documents? <biblioentry id="foo"> <abbrev>FOO</abbrev> <title>what do I...
I'm working on a rather large DocBook XML document. The main book has the chapters but includes all the subsections by reference using entities. Something like this: main.book.xml: <!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [ <!ENTITY section1 SYSTEM "../fragmen...
I try to figure out how to describe in docbook "required fields" of UI. Does anybody know "best practice" for "required fields" in docbook? ...
Hi, I'm using dblatex to convert a book formatted using Docbook into a PDf, and everything is working great, however for the life of me I can't figure out how to suppress the inclusion of a header on the first page of each chapter? Of course I want that page to "count" in terms of the overall page count, however I don't want the book ti...
I'd like to include some phpdoc-generated documentation into my already existing docbook documentation. My idea was to let phpdoc generate the documentation in the docbook-format and then import parts (based on packages and subpackages) of it using XInclude. I'm using Docbook 5 for my documentation. Is there any way to achieve this? ...
I am trying to emphasize a character of some static text to render into the footer of my pdf, but can't figure out the right combination of tags in my xsl. How can I accomplish this? Example: <!-- Footer content --> <xsl:template name="footer.content"> <xsl:param name="pageclass" select="''"/> <xsl:param name="sequence" select="...
The 'e-novative DocBook Environment' is a brain dead simple DocBook toolchain built specifically for the Win32 platform by a company called e-novative GmbH. The company appears to have went out of business. Their website [http://www.e-novative.de] is dead and apparently the install files for their DocBook environment have somehow managed...
The documentation for the pprint module mentions that the method PrettyPrinter.format is intended to make it possible to customize formatting. I gather that it's possible to override this method in a subclass, but this doesn't seem to provide a way to have the base class methods apply line wrapping and indentation. Am I missing somethi...
I'd like to do an XSL transform on a DocBook document using lxml.etree.XSLT. Although the documentation mentions that etree.XSLT() takes a first parameter of xslt_input, I can't seem to find any docs on what this parameter is meant to be. Passing it a file that is open for reading seems to work; passing it a filename in a string does n...
I'd like to use the docbook XSL stylesheets to render various parts of a document, without transforming the entire thing. The complication is that some of these parts have <footnoteref> elements whose linkend attributes are not located within the same chunk. In other words, I want to process a branch of the tree which includes the <foo...